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In the ICU, doctors and nurses hold the hands of those very ill or dying—alone, frightened—from COVID-19.
In the outside world, we are told not to touch, for fear of transmitting or contracting the virus. https://trib.al/HkpSm8w
In the outside world, we are told not to touch, for fear of transmitting or contracting the virus. https://trib.al/HkpSm8w
Coronavirus has meant that social and sexual touch has become imbued with fear. Scientists and researchers tell @TimTeeman we will physically reconnect—but likely not anytime soon. https://trib.al/x5pVfj5
UMiami Professor Tiffany Field told The Daily Beast that she and a team of research students are beginning to study the responses to a survey that asks not only how respondents feel about touch but also about a range of their quarantine emotions. https://trib.al/x5pVfj5
For one fifty-something New Yorker who requested anonymity, technology means he is in meaningful touch with friends.
“But the one thing that can’t be replicated is touch. I miss it,” he told The Daily Beast. https://trib.al/x5pVfj5
“But the one thing that can’t be replicated is touch. I miss it,” he told The Daily Beast. https://trib.al/x5pVfj5
Researchers have studied the many physical and psychological benefits of touch. It has been shown to bolster the immune system, to help with sleep and digestion, and ward off colds and infection, and to lower blood pressure. https://trib.al/x5pVfj5
Rutgers Assistant Professor Victoria Abraira told The Daily Beast that a lack of touch, as experienced by people over a sustained period of time, can lead to “severe psychiatric issues” https://trib.al/x5pVfj5
So how do we deal with being “touch deprived”?
Abraira recommends giving your skin whatever luxury makes it feel its best: baths, lotions, whatever sensory experience makes it come alive.
Read the full story by @TimTeeman here: https://trib.al/6QXHuE3
Abraira recommends giving your skin whatever luxury makes it feel its best: baths, lotions, whatever sensory experience makes it come alive.
Read the full story by @TimTeeman here: https://trib.al/6QXHuE3
